JP4400333B2 - Local cleaning device remote control - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a remote controller for a local cleaning device provided in a toilet room.

  Conventionally, a local cleaning device has been used in a toilet room. The local cleaning device is attached to the upper surface of the rear part of the toilet bowl with a local cleaning device body equipped with a wireless receiving unit, and a remote control operation panel with a transmitter is disposed on the side wall of the toilet room so that it is seated or standing. There was a remote control to operate the remote control panel in the state.

  By the way, the toilet bowl is arranged at the rear part of the toilet room (the front part of the toilet room is a user space), and the local cleaning device main body is attached to the upper surface of the rear part of the toilet bowl. ) In order to make it easy to receive radio from the remote control panel even when the user is seated on the top, or when the toilet lid / toilet seat is standing up, the receiving unit is placed on one of the left and right ends of the top surface of the local cleaning device. It was arranged. The remote control operation panel is provided at the front part of one of the left and right side walls of the toilet room so that the user can easily use it even when the user is seated or standing.

  The remote control operation panel is attached along the side wall of the toilet room, and the transmitter attached to the main body substrate is attached vertically to the main body substrate (see, for example, Patent Document 1) or along the surface of the main body substrate. It is attached upward or rearward (see, for example, Patent Document 2). When the transmitter is an infrared LED, for example, the radio (infrared) transmitted in the transmission direction propagates with a certain extent. Met.

  This remote control panel is arranged on the side wall of the toilet room on the side where the receiver of the local cleaning device is provided, and the radio transmitted from the remote control panel's transmitter to the rear is directly received by the receiver. Of the radio that was received or transmitted upward from the transmitter of the remote control panel, the radio that was transmitted slightly backward was reflected by the ceiling of the toilet room and received by the receiver of the local cleaning device body .

However, in such a conventional remote controller, if the remote control operation panel cannot be provided due to the entrance / exit of the toilet room on the side wall on the side where the receiving unit of the local cleaning device body is provided, the receiving unit of the local cleaning device body The remote control operation panel must be installed on the side wall opposite to the side where the door is provided. At this time, the direction from the transmitter part of the remote control operation panel to the receiver part of the local cleaning device body is a toilet room in plan view. When the transmission direction is set upward or rearward as in the case of a conventional remote control operation panel, the transmitted radio is received. However, even if it reaches the part, it is reflected and attenuated many times on the ceiling and side walls, and it is necessary to increase the strength of the radio, which causes the battery consumption to increase.
Japanese Utility Model Publication No.6-212259 Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 5-77783

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to obliquely rearward the toilet room in a plan view of a wireless transmission direction from a remote control operation panel attached along the side wall of the toilet room. It is another object of the present invention to provide a remote controller for a local cleaning device that can be set obliquely upward.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in the invention according to claim 1, the local cleaning device main body 7 is disposed on the upper surface of the rear portion of the toilet B arranged at the rear of the toilet room T, and the local cleaning device main body 7 is A remote controller having a wireless receiver 70 at one of the left and right ends of the upper surface and a wireless transmitter 2 on the side wall 1b opposite to the side of the toilet room T where the receiver 70 is provided. A remote controller for a local cleaning apparatus provided with an operation panel R, wherein the wireless transmission direction of the remote control operation panel R is set to be obliquely rearward and obliquely upward so as to face the receiving unit 70 in plan view. A main body of the remote control operation panel R is configured by attaching the front case 4a to the main body substrate 3 to which the portion 2 is attached, and a guide portion for holding the transmitting portion 2 attached to the main body substrate 3 on the front case 4a so as to be inclined in the transmission direction. 6 The transmitter 2 includes a light emitting unit 20 and a lead 21 connected to the light emitting unit 20, and the lead 21 of the transmitter 2 is attached to the main body substrate 3. The lead 21 is attached to the main body substrate 3 at a predetermined length from the attachment portion. The spacer member 5 is provided so as to hold it so that it cannot be bent .

By adopting such a configuration, even when the remote control panel R is disposed on the side wall 1b on the opposite side of the left and right side walls of the toilet room T from the side where the receiving unit 70 of the local cleaning device body 7 is provided, The direction from the transmitting part 2 of the operation panel R toward the receiving part 70 of the local cleaning device main body 7, that is, obliquely rearward from the front part of one side wall 1b of the toilet room T to the vicinity of the rear part of the other side wall 1a in plan view. it can be and outgoing obliquely upwards in the direction can be received even if the toilet lid B ₁ and seat B ₂ is not standing by reflecting wirelessly ceiling receiver 70 of the local cleaning device main body 7.

Furthermore, the light emitting direction of the light emitting unit 20 attached to the main body substrate 3 can be held in a predetermined direction.

Furthermore, the lead 21 is prevented from being bent at a predetermined length from the portion where the lead 21 is attached to the main body substrate 3, and the bent length of the lead 21 which is bent by bending only the lead 21 on the tip side is reduced to save space. Can be achieved.

  In the present invention, even when the remote control operation panel is disposed on the side wall on the opposite side of the side wall of the toilet room on the side opposite to the side where the reception unit of the local cleaning device is provided, the remote control operation panel is locally The toilet lid can be transmitted in a direction toward the receiving portion of the cleaning apparatus body, that is, in a direction obliquely rearward from the front portion of one side wall of the toilet room to the vicinity of the rear portion of the other side wall in a plan view, and obliquely upward. Even when the toilet seat is standing upright, the radio can be reflected from the ceiling and received by the receiving unit of the local cleaning device main body, and can be received without increasing the strength of the radio.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the remote control panel R of the local cleaning device main body 7 according to the present invention has a main body substrate 3 attached along the side wall 1 of the toilet room T. As shown in FIG. 4 (a), the transmitter 2 is inclined (from 0 °) with respect to the main body board 3 so as to set the diagonal direction (diagonally backward) of the toilet room T in a plan view. The angle between 90 °). Infrared rays are used for the radio for the remote controller of this embodiment, and infrared LEDs are used as the transmitter 2. In the figure, f indicates the front, b indicates the rear, and y indicates the left-right direction.

  As shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 3, the infrared LED of the transmitter 2 has a light emitting part 20 whose outer shell is formed of a transparent part made of glass, resin, etc. The main body is composed of two leads 21 projecting from the portion 20. The transmitter 2 emits infrared rays with a certain degree of spread from the light emitting unit 20 in the direction B in the figure, and has two leads 21 protruding from the end opposite to the transmission direction.

  The transmitter 2 inserts the leads 21 into the two lead insertion holes 31 formed in the main body substrate 3 of the remote control operation panel R to connect and fix the circuit to the main body substrate 3, and temporarily attaches to the main body substrate 3. It is done. The main board 3 is a rectangular plate as shown in FIG. 5 and is attached to the left and right side walls 1 of the toilet room T so that the upper, lower, left and right sides are in the horizontal and vertical directions. In the main body board 3, the two lead insertion holes 31 are arranged in parallel in a direction inclined from the horizontal direction. That is, in this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 4, it is attached to the side wall 1b of the toilet room T, and the remote control panel R shown in FIG. 5 (a) has the right on the front and the left on the rear. The through holes 31 are arranged in parallel in a direction inclined approximately 20 ° to 50 ° from the horizontal direction so that the lead insertion holes 31 on the upper side and the rear lead insertion holes 31 are on the lower side, and the two leads 21 are arranged in the inclined direction ( It is possible to bend the transmission direction A of the light emitting unit 20 by bending it in a direction orthogonal to the parallel arrangement direction.

  At this time, the spacer member 5 protrudes between the two lead insertion holes 31 formed in the main body substrate 3, and the grooves 51 are formed in the portions corresponding to the lead insertion holes 31 of the spacer member 5. A lead is inserted and set so that the light emitting portion 20 is positioned on the protruding end surface of the spacer member 5. Further, as shown in FIG. 2, a lead bulge portion 22 is provided in a portion slightly away from the light emitting portion 20 of the lead 21, and the light bulging portion 22 is in contact with the protruding end surface of the spacer member 5. You may make it perform positioning from the protrusion end surface of the 20 spacer members 5. FIG. This prevents a predetermined length from being bent from the portion where the lead 21 is attached to the main body substrate 3, and also reduces the bending length of the lead 21 which is bent by bending only the lead 21 on the tip side, thereby saving space. Can be achieved.

  The main body substrate 3 to which the transmitter 2 is attached is housed in the case 4 of the remote control panel R. As shown in FIG. 1, the case 4 is composed of a front case 4 a and a back case 4 b that are half-cracked on the front and back sides. A screw 44 is inserted into the insertion hole 42 formed in the back case 4 b from the outside and the main body substrate 3. Is inserted into a through hole 32 provided in a portion corresponding to the insertion hole 42 (see FIG. 1A), and is screwed into the boss hole 43 of the front case 4a to be attached to the front case 4a, the main body substrate 3, and the back case 4b. Is fixed (see FIG. 1B). At this time, the front case 4 a corresponding to the light emitting unit 20 provided on the main body substrate 3 has a window 41 through which infrared rays transmitted from the light emitting unit 20 are inserted, and on the back side of the window 41. A guide portion 6 for holding the light emitting portion 20 at an angle is formed. As shown in FIG. 3, the guide portion 6 includes an inclined upper surface 61 and both side surfaces 62 that hold the light emitting portion 20 in an inclined state with the upper portion and both side portions thereof being inclined. In the present embodiment, the guide portion 6 is formed integrally with a light transmissive member 60 that closes the opening of the window 41. With the guide portion 6, the light emitting direction of the light emitting portion 20 attached to the main body substrate 3 can be held in a predetermined direction.

  1B, when the front case 4a, the main body substrate 3, and the back case 4b are fixed, the lead 21 bends at the portion of the lead bulge portion 22 located on the protruding end surface of the spacer member 5. Thus, the tip end side (that is, the light emitting portion 20 side) is guided by the guide portion 6 and inclined. Before fixing the front case 4a, the main body substrate 3, and the back case 4b, it is preferable that the lead 21 is slightly bent by hand as shown in FIG.

  As described above, the transmission direction A of the transmission unit 2 is set to be inclined backward by approximately 30 ° from above as shown in FIG. 5A in a side view, and FIG. 5 in a front view. As shown to (b), it can incline and set in the inward direction of 45 degree toilet room T from upper direction.

In this way, as shown in FIG. 4, for example, because there is an entrance or the like in the side wall 1 a, the receiving unit 70 of the local cleaning device body 7 disposed on the rear upper surface of the toilet B at the rear of the toilet room T is provided. Even when the remote control panel R is disposed on the side wall 1b opposite to the rear side, as described above, the direction of the remote control panel R from the transmitter 2 in the direction i. In the front view, infrared rays can be transmitted in a direction inclined in the direction of about 45 ° from the upper side of the toilet room T, reflected in the direction i ′ on the ceiling, and received by the receiver 70, and the toilet lid B ₁ and the toilet seat B ₂ can be received. (In the figure, the toilet lid B ₁ ) is not blocked by the toilet lid B ₁ even when it stands up, and the infrared rays do not reach, and it is reflected by the ceiling a few times (minimum once in this embodiment) and received. Receiving at unit 70 One in which requires less consumption of the battery without the need to increase the transmission intensity of the infrared rays made.

  Next, another embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. In the present embodiment, in addition to the above embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 7 (c) and 6 (d), a transmitter 2 'for transmitting infrared rays upward is provided on the main board 3 as shown in FIG. Even when the remote control panel R is provided on the side wall 1a on the side where the receiving unit 70 is located, it can be used.

  In this case, since infrared rays are transmitted with a certain degree of spread from the light emitting unit 20 of the transmission unit 2 ′, the infrared rays transmitted in the slightly backward direction from above are reflected by the ceiling and received by the reception unit 70.

  When the remote control panel R is provided on the side wall 1b opposite to the side where the receiving unit 70 is located, as shown in FIGS. 6 (a) and 6 (b), transmission / reception is performed as in the above embodiment.

  Thereby, it is possible to deal with the case where the remote control panel R is provided on either the left or right side wall 1a or side wall 1b of the toilet room.

The remote control operation panel of the remote controller of the present embodiment is shown, (a) is a cross-sectional view of the main part before assembly, and (b) is a cross-sectional view of the main part after assembly. It is a perspective view explaining the attachment to the main body board | substrate of a transmission part same as the above. It is a perspective view of a guide part and a transmission part. It is a figure explaining the transmission direction of the radio | wireless from the remote control operating panel in a toilet room, (a) is a top view, (b) is a side view. The remote control panel is shown, (a) is a side view, and (b) is a front view. The figure which shows other embodiment and is a figure explaining the transmission direction of the radio | wireless from the remote control operation panel in a toilet room in the case of providing a transmission part on the opposite side to a receiving part, (a) is a top view, (b) It is a side view, and is a diagram for explaining the direction of radio transmission from the remote control operation panel in the toilet room when the transmitter is provided on the same side as the receiver, (c) is a plan view, and (d) is a side view. It is. The remote control operating panel is shown, with (a) being a side view and (b) being a front view.

Explanation of symbols

2 Transmitter 7 Local cleaning device body 70 Receiver B Toilet R Remote control panel T Toilet room

Claims (1)

A local cleaning device main body is arranged on the upper surface of the rear part of the toilet that is arranged at the rear of the toilet room, a wireless receiver is provided at one of the left and right ends of the upper surface of the local cleaning device main body, and A remote control operation panel having a radio transmission unit is provided on the side wall opposite to the side where the reception unit is provided, and the radio transmission direction of the remote control operation panel is obliquely rearward so as to face the reception unit in plan view. The remote controller of the local cleaning device is set to face obliquely upward, and the main body of the remote control operation panel is configured by attaching the front case to the main body board to which the transmitter is attached, and the outgoing light attached to the main body board to the front case A guide portion is provided to hold the portion so as to be inclined in the transmission direction. The transmission portion includes a light emitting portion and a lead connected to the light emitting portion, and the lead of the transmission portion is attached to the main body substrate. Remote control of the local cleaning device characterized by comprising providing a spacer member for holding the mounting portion of the lead body substrate so as not bent a predetermined length.

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